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Rust is a systems programming language designed for safety, performance, and concurrency without sacrificing low-level control. It follows a multi-paradigm approach, blending imperative, functional, and strongly statically typed programming styles. Unlike traditional systems languages, Rust enforces memory safety at compile time through its unique ownership and borrowing model, eliminating data races and use-after-free bugs without requiring a garbage collector (GC). Rust is a compiled language that produces highly optimized native binaries, suitable for everything from command-line tools and web servers to embedded and desktop applications. Its design prioritizes predictability, robustness, and zero-cost abstractions, making it ideal for building standalone, mission-critical, and highly concurrent systems with confidence.

Origins & Evolution ​

The Rust language began in 2006 as a side project by Graydon Hoare, driven by the desire to fix deep-rooted issues in systems programming, particularly around safety & concurrency. The goal was to build a language that offered fine-grained control like C++, but without the undefined behavior and brittle memory management. In 2009, Mozilla Research formally backed the project to power Servo, an experimental browser engine built for parallelism and safety.

From the start, Rust focused on three core goals, namely

  • Memory safety without needing a garbage collector
  • Fearless concurrency through strict compile-time guarantees
  • C-like performance enabled by zero-cost abstractions

As the language matured, it gained attention from a growing group of contributors and open-source advocates who helped evolve its syntax, semantics, and tooling. Between 2010 and 2014, the language underwent rapid iteration, with frequent breaking changes and heavy redesigns. A turning point came in 2015, with the release of Rust 1.0, signaling the start of long-term stability and versioning guarantees.

Notably, Rust emphasized tooling from the very beginning. Its default toolchain included the following.

  • cargo – Package manager & build system
  • rustc – Compiler
  • rustfmt – Code formatter

This integrated experience set a high bar for developer productivity and consistency across projects.

Rust introduced several key innovations that distinguish it from traditional systems languages such as

  • Ownership and borrowing - A unique memory model that statically guarantees memory safety and prevents data races. This eliminates null dereferencing, use-after-free, and dangling pointers entirely.
  • Pattern matching and algebraic data types - Inspired by functional languages, allowing concise and expressive control flow.
  • Strong, static typing with inference - Offers both safety and ergonomic syntax.
  • Zero-cost abstractions: Abstractions in Rust compile down to highly efficient machine code with no runtime overhead.

Over time, Rust found adoption in several high-impact production environments, often in areas where performance, correctness, and reliability are critical. Some of the most notable ones include

A major milestone came in 2021, when Rust was accepted into the Linux kernel, becoming the first language since C to be permitted in kernel development. This was followed in 2022 by the creation of the Rust Foundation, funded and supported by companies like Google, AWS, Microsoft, and Mozilla to secure the language’s future and governance.

Today, Rust is widely used across domains:

  • CLIs – fast, reliable tooling (e.g., ripgrep, bat, fd)
  • Web servers – via frameworks like Actix and Axum
  • Embedded systems – with no_std, RTIC, and bare-metal support
  • Desktop apps – through projects like Tauri and egui

Rust continues to evolve via a transparent RFC process, where major changes are proposed, discussed, and refined by the community. Stability is preserved through a carefully managed edition system, with releases in 2015, 2018, and 2021, allowing the language to grow without breaking existing codebases.

Consistently rated as the most loved programming language by developers via Stack Overflow developers survey, Rust has earned its place as a modern, practical choice for building safe, fast, and maintainable software across a broad range of domains.

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  • rust uses ownership & borrowing
rust
fn main() {
	println!("Hello World")
}
  • primitive data types - int, float, bool, char - also called the scalar data types
  • integers can be signed or unsigned